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Classic Video Games / Your Opinion's Of Both Star Craft 1 And 2

« on: May 19, 2023, 10:23:37 am »

Believe it or not Blizzard online store is still selling 2 and remastered version of the first game today (date of this post) and Steam "I DONT THINK" currently has rights to sell this game meaning you need a battle net account in order to access Star Craft and Warcraft still. unless you still have the disc AND the install code lying around.

Blizzard is now letting you get the original for free now I think?, the thing about having the Star Craft disc is that without the install code there is no way to install the game via the disc either because unlike most games the encrypted install code was changed for just about every single copy of the disc ever made, meaning this game I don't think ever have a universal install code deeming the disc worthless without the paper sleeve or the original jewel case,  unless you knew somebody who could hack your disc or could do it yourself.

Anyway, I NEVER found a universal key for this game anywhere on the internet ever, but luckily with a battle net account you do not need to have a paper install key but rather a password in which most times can be recovered easily if you know how.


I bought Star Craft 2 years ago and forgot I bought it, just yesterday, I found out I had a battlenet account that I completely forgot I had with both games on it, now I am replaying the original game made in 1998 on Windows 10

I like this game a lot, but when I first saw it's cover as a kid I didn't think I'd like the game being a real time strategy game in which I am not good at real time strategy games. But for some reason I can usually play this but I did cheat to figure out how to work this genre at first because before Star Craft I never played real time strategy

If you are new to the genre I recommend Star Craft to begin your journey but be warned it's not easy still on people that never touched a strategy game in their lives before like how I used to be before this game

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General / How Many Stopped Playing Your Consoles Due To Crashes

« on: March 23, 2023, 07:11:01 pm »

There is a thing going on online and even creeping offline between hidden LAN network connections, I am now going to give away a whole chunk of my collection to charity hopefully tommorrow becuase I can't play any video games anymore because of hackers causing my games to crash if and when I start beating the CPU, or what I believe to be the CPU. After looking online I found out that I'm not the only one who is suffering instant unknown game crashes due to not bugs, but hackers who hack into the games inner codes and break peoples game.

Nobody is safe and knowing this has prevented me from playing any console game for 4 years now both online and offline, if you think this is impossible , your wrong your wrong your wrong, and if you think this will not happen to you your wrong your wrong your wrong. Mostly everyone could be affected at this point.

Bitches do this shit for fun instread of enjoying games they prefer to mess with the codes for laughs anf fuck people over and over again taking all the enjoyment out of gaming for 1000's of people worldwide.

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Classic Video Games / Classic Games That Are Hard To Find Physical Copies Of Now

« on: November 03, 2022, 10:15:22 pm »

Earlier this year it was darn near IMPOSSIBLE to find a copy of Star Wars Battlefront 2 for the original Xbox in physical form now I see it is back in stock on both Amazon and Walmart used.

As time goes on I've noticed certain games go rare then pop back into the for sale on the online marketplaces  again and again, but what happens when some of these games will no longer be available for months or even years at a given timeframe?

 that fact is why I don't want to obtain and collect video games anymore, and what makes me even more of a hoarder of games and even music.

 in fact my username Oldgamerz was a name I created for this site back in 2017 as a protest towards the modern digital only ways of the gaming industry, if we are excluding the Nintendo Switch. As was the main reason why in 2015 I jumped on the bandwagon and grabbed as much as I could before it was or would be gone for good.

I'd say most of the Nintendo 64 library is hard or near impossible to find now

a vast majority of the PS1 and PS2 library is hard or almost near impossible to find now

you can forget about the NES SNES SEGA SATURN AND DREAMCAST NOW.

You can probably forget about retro handhelds too all to most of them too.

What other systems and games for them are hard to almost impossible to find now?

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General / Your Personal Shooting Games Camera Angle Preferences

« on: November 03, 2022, 03:54:01 am »

which do you prefer 1st, 2nd, or 3rd top down or side person camera angles when playing any kind of shooting game or a game involving any kind of a gun period. Now some of you may wonder what a 2nd person angle game would be like and this YouTube video describes one theory but it is not a shooting video game.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC8QoRa8y_Q

but I'm sure someone on this forum can find what would be called a 2nd person shooter, but who's judging?

I personally like 1st person shooting video games best and 3rd person shooting video games the least. I like 1st person shooting video games the best because they I believe they put me in the game more. And I'm actually "In The Game" rather then watching the game from the sidelines. 3rd Person camera angles make me feel less in control of the actual game, due to my focus on the blood and gore rather then the animations of the game characters.

3rd Person camera angels is better aped for medieval or hand to hand combat and sword fighting video games rather than for shooting video games in my opinion, in many 3rd person shooting video games you can often find your character's ass gets in the way and you can't see to aim at your targets especially if they are flying or high up above you. meanwhile while the camera is zoomed into your character's ass your getting it kicked by one or many of your enemies in the game.

I don't like top down shooters that much either because I feel pretty much the same way about them as I do 3rd person shooters, like I said I feel like I'm watching the game from the sidelines instead of playing it at that angle, plus top down shooters remind me that I'm playing with toys instead of a video game.

I sorta like side scrolling shooters because, why not? I mean there are more probably more side scrolling video games more then any other kind of camera angle ever created right? If you don't like any side scrollers? than you must not like 66% of every single retro or indie game ever created in the History of video games period.

So?? this bears the question? what is your favorite camera angle when it comes to shooting video games?

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General / How Does One Become True Multi Trade Video Game Master?

« on: October 04, 2022, 07:58:19 am »

I thought I was good at Unreal Championship for the original Xbox until I upped to the 2nd hardest bot difficulty, facing bots not actual humans in which in my experience with other games is suppose to be easier than facing other humans, and I found out that now my hands are too sweaty to get a grip on the Xbox controller.

 and I'm now getting my ass kicked my hands are constantly slipping off the buttons does this ever happen to you in other games? or perhaps this game in particular?

and how did anybody play and win live tournaments against harder opponents like real people for example without their hands slipping off the buttons, I know that I'll probably never get to participate in a REAL original Xbox tournament in my life not even for one game because I don't know anybody. but I wonder how did anybody have the talent to win back in the day and even on some modern gaming tournaments today?

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Off Topic / Random Or Stupid Question's And Answers (About Media In General)

« on: October 04, 2022, 12:25:51 am »

I thought I could spoof up the off topic section with another interesting thread where we can ask question about old or new TV shows, video games, music or other entertainments.

My question to you all is?

Who was that funny horney looking mutant lizard character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon that used to air back in the mid 1990's?

when I looked up Lizard Character for that particular show all that came up on the internet was an mutant alligator named Leatherhead but it looked nothing like him in the original show or what I saw when the show was advertised.

The reason why I ask this question is because for one I never actually watched the show, and for two I'm a fan of Duke Nukem 3D who has spent countless hours as a teenager fooling around exploding pipebombs on lizards asses while Duke Nukem kept saying in the game I'm gonna put the smack dab on your ass

As stupid as is sounds

all i know is the lizard always has his mouth open and teeth showing like from what I gather he sounds kind of like a pervert in the show with a raspy lusty voice, does anybody know what the hell I'm talking about?

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Classic Video Games / How Many Of You Forum Attenders and Viewers Still Play Retro Video Games

« on: September 29, 2022, 11:50:53 pm »

And when I mean retro I mean PC retro, or 7th console generation and before generally games released between 1976-2015 or perhaps newer mods for older games or newer released 8-bit or 16-bit games for older consoles or PC's

in fact that is all I play when it comes to video games, all I ever hear when it comes to modern video games is RPG or open world exploring games, or even RPG strategy games or mobile games.

Do you think all the games pre generation will be lost in time?, I hope not,

For you born after 2010 in my own opinion you really should look into these old games your parents and possibly even your grandparents or great grandparents played in their lifetime

people who grew up in the 1970's and 1980's when the video game industry began pretty much are now growing into their 50's and late 40's others in their mid to late 30's (date of post) now, and people like that grew up in the 1990's and 2000's are really the ones who seen the video game industry make the most improvements.  (edit) (Graphic wise)

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Classic Video Games / Do You Prefer Having Cartridges Or CD's/etc For TV Console Video Games?

« on: September 10, 2022, 10:19:43 pm »

A Cartridge can technically be a harddrive or a USB Flash or a SD or a SD mini card with with one game or a whole bunch of games on it and so can a CD, only difference is now a video game cartridge as far as I know can hold more than traditional CD's DVD's or even Blurayy.

what do you prefer to play your modern games? or even your classic games on? and do you perfer to play most of your classic or modern games with a disc/CD/DVDor Bluray disc or instead of that

a cartridge? in which is technically could be the same thing as a harddrive or an SD card or mini SD card or flash drive

And do you think that the modern video game industry would benefit from going backwards to cartridges?  or harddrive based gaming instead of disc only or the current video game industry being disc and digital based?

Imagine haveing an entire console collection purchased on 1 or multiple SD, or mini SD cards or flash drives instread of having a collection of discs connected to a server you need to download online only?

and if the games were released one by one so the game companies could make the same amount of money minus the cost or a vary small SD or mini SD or flash drive?

The question is complicated but how would today's video game industry be if  all the games were released one by one or in packs on SD or Mini SD cards with the printed manuals like back in the old days guys?


I would actually buy a modern console if that were the case and games to go with it

This would be both cost effective and physical released with a hint of the old days

Their is the Nintendo Switch but does the Nintendo Switch come with all or most classic or modern console games with console or PC graphics?

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Off Topic / Your Opinions Of Online Radio Broadcasters Or DJ's

« on: July 24, 2022, 04:10:07 pm »

Story goes I brought up this topic on a forum about only music after I registered and then the next time I logged in I get a banned message and also another message saying ban will NEVER be lifted and no reason was given so I am pissed about that so anyway on with the topic.

what is your opinion about online radio broadcasters, do they suck? do you hate them? why do you think I was banned for no reason and given the message my ban will never be lifted? I did introduce myself and told them I was a non profit Broadcaster so maybe they thought I was spamming the forum anyway I am pissed about it I can't even start a discussion as a forum newbie without someone slamming the hammer for no reason.

My opinion is simple I think it is wrong to rebroadcast someone else broadcast for financial benefit, I also think it is wrong to broadcast without at least a blanket license, I also think it is wrong for any DJ to broadcast bootleg recordings or some recordings he or she got from some burned disc but I didn't say these things in the post on that forum so I don't know what the fuck happened.

I broadcast my own radio station without commercials, but I do have a blanket license that I pay for, I am guessing it't that I can't afford to pay 9c a song airtime that pissed them off though

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Classic Video Games / How Many Of You Played A Round Of Klondike (Microsoft Classic Solitaire)?

« on: June 06, 2022, 04:20:04 pm »

May 22, 1990


It's been on every single windows PC since the at least Windows 3.0 even before Windows 3.1 and even popular Windows 95 came out so how many of you played it. I just started to play it on Windows 10 with the hidden but built in Solitaire Collection, it's a fun game when you got nothing else better to do but Klondike it's called comes with ads in windows 10 though

you can level up in windows 10 version and gain experience pointe just like in modern games how many of you played solitaire at work or school since this game has literally been on every single windows OS machine since May 22, 1990

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General / Let's Talk About Your On Site Collection Status

« on: April 01, 2022, 09:39:39 am »

ok you probably don't know what I'm talking about or? what this is going to be about at this point?

 Let's talk about your Backlog, your Currently Played Status, as Well as Your On Site Wish Lists, and your Finished list. I'll post mine to start out this thread,

My current untouched games/backlog of my collection I know nothing or little about these games or I have not made it off the first 5 levels yet
https://vgcollect.com/backlog/oldgamerz

My current finished meaning I played these games before and pretty much know what they are about already.
https://vgcollect.com/finished/oldgamerz


My Currently playing or played before list this includes games I have played before but mostly not beaten for the most part OR games have beaten but have not put them down yet
https://vgcollect.com/currentlyplaying/oldgamerz

WISH LIST? I WANT EVERYTHING

 I wanted us to first make our lists in our collection status than talk about what we played and have not got around to playing and maybe some of us could recommend playing a game to someone even me, that has listed in their collection or wish list and talk about that game and maybe get hyped about actually playing that said game another has played and recommends

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Site Feedback / How Do I Add To Backlog List?

« on: March 30, 2022, 03:20:47 pm »

saw it was a new option but don't know how to do it, I really want to love this new feature suggestion

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Classic Video Games / What is the hardest RPG you Ever Completed?

« on: March 29, 2022, 06:48:43 pm »

If Pokémon is considered the easiest thing in RPG form what is considered a REALLY REALLY hard RPG Me? I choose Final Fantasy 7, it throws a difficult boss fight right in the beginning AND tells you the wrong way how to defeat it according to someone on here before. As a result I never looked up a guide for final fantasy 7 and still have no way to know how to complete the boss fight in the beginning of it, WTF

I like Pokémon because you've AND Earthbound because you've got unlimited lives to screw up before starting over from the beginning and? what other games are like this?

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Off Topic / A Question About Playing Copyrighted Music In Public?

« on: March 28, 2022, 02:12:01 pm »

here is video about a game review by angeryjoe for getting caught for playing a copyrighted song in his video for 4 seconds opinion and advice needed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJXda_3Epb8&list=PLxnOUl5g286nRpkGBlSlKt902PWMeI5OB&index=5 


first all Again i have my own radio station link in signature below, and I play full time copyrighted content 24 hours 7 days a week so far so good, I do have a License from ASCAP to protect myself from copyright infringement but why can someone like angry joe on YouTube can get called down for 4 seconds of playing a copyrighted song? and people on the radio 10000's of station do on the internet even some without a license and it's ok for them.


What make YouTube so picky about copyrighted music? but not games or movies or other things why for music 4 seconds joe said and now his video is owned by the copyright owner of the song

yet there is entire songs on Youtube you can listen for free too, whats the deal guys?

can I or all radio stations get sued them in the world?

google says

Do radio stations get copyrighted?
When it comes to music and radio, whether over the air or the Internet, there are at least two copyrights that are of concern including the musical work and the sound recording. For FCC licensed radio stations not streaming copyrighted music, the only rights involved currently are the musical works (compositions)

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Classic Video Games / How Rare Do You Think It Is To Find SNES Cartridges Today?

« on: March 25, 2022, 05:38:25 am »

Vary vary rare in my opinion all the collectors bought up the worlds stock, where can I even find Super Nintendo games anymore? I see a lot of people on this site own the cartridges but are hanging onto them and not letting any go, I rarely ever saw SNES cartridges in the wild when I was searching about 4 years ago too.

can anybody point out any SNES compilations that are being sold perhaps a ROM cartridge?